Exam 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

The task system was practiced by Carolina rice planters.

In his day, Benjamin Franklin's greatest fame came from his work in founding the Library Company of Philadelphia.

After 1720, Ireland and Germany replaced England as the main source of free immigrants.

John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon jointly used the pen name_____________ when writing about religious bigotry and political and financial corruption.

When the British fought the Spanish and French in the era 1740 to 1763, most slaves and eastern land Indians

George Washington commanded the Virginia contingent during the defeat of General Braddock's forces in western Pennsylvania.

The Molasses Act of 1733 virtually ended New England's molasses trade with the French West Indies.

As late as 1750, New Jersey had as many settlers as New York, but fewer slaves.

Africans and African Americans who genetically inherit sickle cell anemia have some immunity to malaria.

The Scots-Irish in South Carolina were

Before the 1680s, the only North American colony with printing presses was_____________.

Chesapeake tobacco planters employed the_____________ labor system.

The most prosperous family farms in colonial America were found in

In the eastern woodlands, most Indians identified with France, not England, as the only ally committed to their survival and independence.

By 1750, the richest men in British North America were

Until 1700, many Chesapeake widows inherited all of their husbands' property and administered their own estates.

The Cherokee were the only Native Americans to openly welcome the British settlers into the backcountry.

Legally, in colonial America, women were considered equal to men.

Compare and contrast the development of the "old South" and the middle-Atlantic region during the eighteenth century.

The possession of a(n)_____________ gave Africans real protection against malaria.